Depression Counselling

Depression Counselling and Support with Our Experienced Psychotherapist & Counsellor

The words depression, depressed and depressing get thrown around a lot, but according to the Canadian Mental Health Association approximately 8% of adults will experience major depression at some point in their lives. When struggling with depression symptoms, it’s imperative to get support sooner rather than later to help manage symptoms.

Everyone experiences stress and “bad days” however when those days turns into weeks and months, we start to experience more serious symptoms of a depression. Our friends and family may tell us to “pull ourselves together” or “this is just a phase” but in reality, they don’t always fully understand the impact depression can have on our lives. Depression can impact our relationships, self-esteem, physical health, work and many aspects of our life.

Counselling is one of the best ways to mitigate the impacts of depression on our life. Counselling using therapeutic approaches such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) which can help you better manage your mood by tackling the thoughts that influence our behaviours and moods. Depression may lead us to think “what’s the point”, and CBT teaches us how situations impact our thoughts, feelings and behaviours, and how to challenge maladaptive thoughts. Depression often hijacks our attention, so other approaches such as Mindfulness can help us stay more present by bringing awareness to our thoughts and impact on our mood. We often get stuck too far in the future, or ruminate too far in the past, mindfulness helps us to bring back focus to the present. As well techniques from Dialectal Behavioural Therapy (DBT) can help with depression by introducing strategies to help with emotional regulation and coping with distress.

Counselling with a psychotherapist can help you better manage your mood by learning new coping strategies, problem solving and changing behaviour that may be contributing to symptoms. If interested in seeking out professional support for your mental health, please check out our available counselling and book an appointment with our experienced therapist.